Moore roundup, Patriot’s Journey, OT

I know I have been slacking off on the Patriot’s Journey posts.  I’ll do better.  In the meantime, the second-to-last item in this roundup counts for today.  :)

OK, here’s a few interesting tidbits…

- First up, sent in by about a half-ton of people, a good, comprehensive review of Jesse Larner’s new book ”Moore and Us: One Man’s Quest for a New World Order.”

I wasn’t expecting an awful lot from Larner’s book, since his politics are so far to the Left. As you’ll see from the Q&A below, he hates George W. Bush almost as much as Moore does, and this leads him into some laboured rants against the forces of darkness. But to his credit, he refuses to ignore uncomfortable facts about the Left’s favourite all-round polemicist. His verdict is detailed and damning. Moore’s admirers have long had a habit of shrugging off attacks as the work of the grand right-wing conspiracy. It won’t be so easy this time.

I ordered a copy, but it seems to be UK only, so who knows how long it will take to arrive.  I’ll post a review as soon as I have finished it though.  In the mean time, that lnk to the book takes you to Amazon.co.uk, and we don’t get a cut if you buy it, the reviewer I linked does.

- Next up, sent in by many of you as well, Mikey is helping with a film festival.

Michael Moore is helping develop a yearly film festival for this northern Michigan tourist town that will include free outdoor showings of all-time favorites on a large waterfront screen.

Among the classics being considered: “Jaws,” “Rebel Without a Cause,” and “Casablanca.” But no “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

The Traverse City Film Festival Committee, with Moore as chairman, received permission from city commissioners Monday to use a municipal park adjacent to Lake Michigan’s Grand Traverse Bay for the outdoor viewings during the inaugural festival, scheduled for July 28-31.

The park, known as the Open Space, also is the primary setting for the National Cherry Festival in early July. The films will be shown on a 49-foot-by 24-foot inflatable screen.

So far so good.  If Moore keeps his word, and we all know how valuable his word is, then I commend him for this.  I ain’t the only one doubting Mikey’s word, however…

Some people at the meeting weren’t convinced.

“You’re going to be driving past it and you’re going to be watching political propaganda,” Mary Ann Galic said.

Local citizens should decide what films are shown on public property, said Genie Aldrich, another Traverse City resident.

“This is not Podunk USA and we do not need outsiders coming in here telling what is good for us,” Aldrich said.

It’s amazing how little trust Moore’s fellow Michigan residents have in him.  Oh wait...he’s not a resident of Michigan.  Hey, that would explain the “outsiders” reference from Aldrich.  :)

- Next...did anyone else notice Moore made the nominee list for the Discovery Channel’s “Greatest American” thing?  WTF?  By what stretch of the imagination does a lying, opportunistic pile of human fecal waste like Moore deserve to be on a list with George Washington?  WHo made that stupid list?  Luckily he went nowhere in the voting.  I’m slightly appalled as some of those who made it in to the top 25 though.  Dubya?  a “Greatest?” No, sorry.  Oprah?  Billy Graham?  Fucking Bill Clinton?  On what planet are these people examples of our “greatest” Americans?

But that’s the beauty of America, folks.  You’re free to make up dumb polls and just as free to vote stupidly in them without fear that the police will come and take you away if you don’t vote for Glorious Leader.

- Lastly, my new podcast is up.  Nothing at all to do with Moore, but damn fine entertainment anyway. :)